| 2nd Season | |
|---|---|
| Duration | October 6, 2011 – April 1, 2012 |
| Number of matchups | 22 (+2 playoffs) |
| Number of teams | 6 |
| Regular season | |
| Presidents’ Trophy |
Optimus-Reim |
| Naveed Trophy | Getting Iggy With It |
| Hoover Bowl | |
| Champions | Dunder Myfuglien |
| Finalist | Chance of Fleury’s |
| Seasons | |
| ← 2010–11 2012–13 → | |
Regular Season
| W | L | T | Pts | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | p– Optimus Reim | 98 | 76 | 24 | 220 | |||||
| 2 | x– Stammer Time | 92 | 78 | 28 | 212 | |||||
| 3 | x– Dunder Myfuglien | 94 | 87 | 17 | 205 | |||||
| 4 | x– Chance of Fleury’s | 94 | 89 | 15 | 203 | |||||
| 5 | Mr. Mo-mentum | 83 | 96 | 19 | 185 | |||||
| 6 | Getting Iggy With It | 69 | 104 | 25 | 163 |
Playoffs
| Semifinals | Hoover Bowl Final | |||||||
| [1] | Optimus-Reim | 1 | ||||||
| [4] | Chance of Fleury’s | 6 | ||||||
| [4] | Chance of Fleury’s | 1 | ||||||
| [3] | Dunder Myfuglien | 6 | ||||||
| [2] | Stammer Time | 1 | ||||||
| [3] | Dunder Myfuglien | 8 |
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2012: 1st – Dunder Myfuglien; 2nd – Chance of Fleury’s; 3rd –Optimus Reim ; 4th –Stammer Time ; 5th – Mr. Momentum; 6th – Getting Iggy With It
The second season began with the addition of two expansion teams (DM and ST) as well as a radical change of rules to make the league a keeper league. The season began much as it had the season before with CoF, OR, and GIWI battling a top the leaderboard while MM again started out poorly. Of the expansion team ST started the strongest, being among the leaders in weeks won, however the close nature of those wins left them in the middle of the pack to start the year.
Again similar to last year the halfway-ish mark led to drastic changes. The week 9 matchup between GIWI and OR was a midseason battle for first with the winner almost assuredly taking the mantle from CoF who had struggled the previous few weeks and was trending downwards. In what should have been a tight battle OR unleashed a can of whoop ass on GIWI thrashing him with the first 9-0 score in league history. The loss exposed GIWI as a pretender and sent the team on a historically rapid descent to the bottom of the league. GIWI only won twice in the following 12 weeks with 6 shutout losses including 3 weeks in a row without a single category win. To put it in perspective the other five teams combined for only three shutout losses the entire season. On the other side of the equation the win put OR at the top of the standings for good as they would finish the season in first.
OR and their top ranked goaltending crew were joined in the playoffs by number 2 seed ST who remained relatively consistent throughout and gradually gained and passed the more erratic CoF and DM. Number 3 seed DM entered the playoffs as a definite darkhorse candidate for the Hoover Bowl by dominating all offensive categories throughout the season on the heels of Evgeni Malkin and Claude Giroux’s massive seasons. Number 4 seed CoF needed to beat a somehow still mathematically alive MM team to grab the last spot and in general looked underwhelming entering the playoffs. Entering the final day of their first round matchup OR seemed in complete control with only Brian Elliot and Kevin Shattenkirk left to play for CoF. Amazingly however Elliot recorded a shutout and Shattenkirk had 3 PP assists to propel CoF to the improbable and dramatic come from behind victory. On the other side DM showed why despite their ranking they were a serious contender with a 8-1 beatdown of ST. The result was a 3 vs 4 final between DM and CoF and despite its gutsy win against OR, CoF had no real answer to DM’s offensive prowess as the 3 seed cruised to a 6-1 win and a Hoover Bowl Championship in its first season.
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